Weaving so far

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Today I took my weave off of the loom and it felt great to have done it and to have finished my warp. I was in such a rush at the end of the day that I didn't manage to get a picture of it as one long piece. Altogether I have 9 samples and I am quite pleased that I managed to get that much done 

These are some of my samples now that I have taken them off of the loom. Some of them have been cut  neatly and some of them I haven't finished yet. 

I feel that I have managed to show quite a few of my ideas from my sketchbooks in a variety of ways. The floats in my weaving refer to movement, and my samples where I used elastic refer to the ripples I looked at in the beginning and again movement. I have used quite shiny thread as well which relate to water and the white spaces in my drawings. I got the ideas for weft faced fabrics from some of the artists that I used for my inspiration for example Taslima Sultana.

In the above sample I made a mistake and so I want to point this out as I think it will help me in the future. In order to produce the above sample I did a yarn wrapping and decided to use a couple of new yarns to give my collection a bit more depth. However, I did not consider my warp colour when I did this wrapping and I think the yellow colour with my red yarn looked absolutely awful and so in future I think I need to consider my yarns much more including my warp colours.